If my film had a mother it would be ... Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore. 'The most realistic and refreshingly adult film about the complexity of romantic relationships between men and women and women and women'

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Mugabe and the White African is a covertly-filmed documentary about a white Zimbabwean family's stand against Robert Mugabe's land reform campaign. Co-director Andrew Thompson reveals how the film was made against enormous odds

Henry Barnes: Child actors can rely on cuteness and clever editing to emerge from action movies and comedy. But, as two films screening at the London film festival show, proper drama is no kindergarten